Niels Henrik Abel Scientist

Niels Henrik Abel (5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals. This question was one of the outstanding open problems of his day, and had been unresolved for 250 years. He was also an innovator in the field of elliptic functions, discoverer of Abelian functions. Despite his achievements, Abel was largely unrecognized during his lifetime; he made his discoveries while living in poverty and died at the age of 26.Most of his work was done in six or seven years of his working life. Regarding Abel, the French mathematician Charles Hermite said: "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years." Another French mathematician, Adrien-Marie Legendre, said: "quelle tête celle du jeune Norvégien!" ("what a head the young Norwegian has!").

Personal facts

Birth date	August 05, 1802
Birth place	Norway , Nedstrand , Finnøy
Nationality	Norwegians
Date of death	April 06, 1829
Place of death	Norway , Froland
Residence	Norway
Education	University of Oslo
Known for	Abelian group Abelian and tauberian theorems Abel's identity Abel's summation formula Abelian category Abel–Ruffini theorem Abelian extension Abel's test Abel's binomial theorem Abel's inequality Abel's theorem Abelian variety Summation by parts Abel equation Dual abelian variety Divergent series Abel equation of the first kind Abel–Plana formula Abelian variety of CM-type Abel transform Abel–Jacobi map Abel's irreducibility theorem